June 8, 2026
Your morning brew of art world media
Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is The Art World’s Quiet Embrace of A.I. Is Not Gender Neutral by Naomi Rea for Artnet. As AI becomes increasingly embedded in the art world, its impact on gender equity will depend on how institutions and leaders address the structural inequalities that existing AI systems can reinforce.
Art in America
Emily Watlington, Through Sculpture, Kiah Celeste Finds Elegance in the Everyday
Greg Allen, As the Country Turns 250, Why Won’t Its Museums Meet the Moment?
The Art Newspaper
Joe Ware, Stoke-on-Trent—the UK’s home of ceramics—seeks emergency funds for crumbling heritage
Joe Ware, AI cultural companion Artlas expands pilots as founder argues institutions need trusted AI tools
Gareth Harris, New digital archive reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts for the first time in four centuries
Artforum
Caroline Elbaor, Caput Mundi: Rome’s art scene grapples with the weight of its history
From the Editors, Mysterious Stonehenge Altar Could Have Traveled Via Glacier, New Study Finds
From the Editors, Crystal Bridges To Open 100,000 Square Foot Expansion
From the Editors, New York’s New School Slashes Staff, Tenured Faculty
Artnet
EDITOR’S PICK - Naomi Rea, The Art World’s Quiet Embrace of A.I. Is Not Gender Neutral: A.I. reflects the art world’s gender inequities. Whether it reshapes them depends on choices being made right now.
Vittoria Benzine, Leonardo’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years
Margaret Carrigan, What Makes a Gallery Weekend Good?
Vittoria Benzine, Undersung Surrealist Maria Martins’s Market Is Finally Catching Up
Min Chen, How Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima Turned Friendship Into an Art Installation
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Rediscovered Constable Goes on View for First Time in Decades
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Arne Glimcher’s $50M Pollock Falls Flat in Sotheby’s Private Auction—and More Art Industry News
Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Is the Mega-Gallery Model Collapsing?
ARTnews
Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s Quietly Tried to Sell Arne Glimcher’s Pollock for $50 M.—It Didn’t Go as Planned
Anne Doran, Mexico Demands a Halt to an Auction of Mexican Artifacts in Colorado
Harrison Jacobs, National Park Service Orders Removal of Quotes at Bunker Hill After Visitor Complains of ‘Woke’ Ideology
Tessa Solomon, Following Federal Order, Kennedy Center Begins Removing References to Donald Trump
Daniel Cassady, Police Investigate Suspected Arson at Boston Museum of African American History
ArtReview
Jenny Wu, What Drives the Enduring Popularity of Nancy Holt?
The Brooklyn Rail
Molly Warnock, Eric N. Mack with Molly Warnock
Stephen Melville, Readings
Molly Warnock, Pieter Schoolwerth with Molly Warnock
Jillian Russo, Greater New York 2026
Mark Bloch, Marcel Duchamp
Financial Times
Melanie Gerlis, At this year’s Art Basel, only the spectacular will do
Jackie Wullschläger, How Helen Frankenthaler became America’s grande dame of abstraction
The Guardian
John Semley, Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’
Jonathan Jones, Julio Le Parc review – as if Bridget Riley had opened a riotous funfair
Erin Feher, Mildred Howard on her first retrospective in a major museum: ‘My art is part of who I am as a person’
Hyperallergic
Valentina Di Liscia, Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke
Isa Farfan, New School Lays Off Nearly 90 People, Dealing Blow to Humanities
Leonardo Páez Rodríguez, We Must Protect South American Rock Art
Matt Stromberg, Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel
Anthony Majanlahti, Portrait of a Papal Artist
The New Yorker
Zachary Fine, Edmonia Lewis, the Misunderstood Sculptor Who Brought Stone to Life
Observer
Dian Parker, Joan Miró’s Joy Is as Infectious as Ever
Christa Terry, A $3 Million Night at the Geffen: MOCA’s Celebrated Gala Returns in Full Force
Elisa Carollo, At Giovanna Caruso Fendi’s FOROF, Rome’s Past Finds New Context in the Contemporary
Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Tracey Emin, A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, What We Skipped: Heritage fights, museum warnings and auction bets
Adam Schrader, Ilse Bing exhibition at Chrysler Museum traces an artist remade by exile
Adam Schrader, Frantz Zéphirin’s first U.S. survey explores Haitian politics, Vodou spirits and visions
Adam Schrader, Boston police seek suspect after Juneteenth items burned outside African Meeting House
Adam Schrader, Newark Museum of Art worker alleges he was fired after HR complaints
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Jones v. Newark Museum of Art retaliation lawsuit
Adam Schrader, N.J. art middleman arrested in $190K deal had federal judgment
Adam Schrader, ‘No match for so much violence’: Three men sentenced for Drents Museum heist
Adam Schrader, Hunter Biden gets the Beeple treatment after certifying art on blockchain
The Wall Street Journal
From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of June 7
Michael J. Hatch, ‘Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art’ Review: A Culture’s High Points
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